A pill designed to reduce alcohol consumption among problem drinkers is recommended in draft guidance by NICE - the body approving drugs in England and Wales.

GP out-of-hours services in England are improving, but weaknesses still exist in certain areas of care, inspectors say.

JP Morgan says it suffered a massive cyber attack affecting 76 million private and seven million business customers in the US.

The US is to partially lift its decades-old arms embargo on providing lethal military support to Vietnam, the state department announces.

North Korea is not planning any missile or nuclear tests, the country's envoy to the UN in Geneva, So Se Pyong, is quoted as saying.

Thai Police say two Burmese men have apparently confessed to killing British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao island.

A freelancer working for NBC News in Liberia is to be flown home to the US after contracting the virus, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives.

The Australian cabinet gives its approval for fighter jets to join US-led air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq.